GOOD morning – it’s the 13th! We shall spend the day huddled in bed – actually it’s rather difficult to “huddle” in the tropical world, since most of us sleep on top of our bed linen or better still, on a mat on the floor.
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IF PNG Power disconnected the current after Monday’s heavy downpour, how was 11 years old Darren Warrage electrocuted and killed when trying to disentangle his legs from a broken cable near the Granville Hotel on Tuesday?
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WHAT do readers think of the three foreign employees of a major Oro province business house who tried to fly more than 10 cartons of beer into Girua airport on Tuesday? As far as we’re concerned, its top marks to Col Vagi Oala who heads the SoE in Oro.
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REPORTEDLY the colonel flatly refused to turn a blind eye to the pleadings of the trio of would-be smugglers. Wonder if he was offered any inducements? Apparently the plane was chartered; the aircraft’s owners should be fined for allowing the illegal cargo to be loaded. Ignorance of the law is no defence. Liquor is banned in Oro under the terms of the SoE.
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WHY are we making such a fuss over 10 cartons of beer? Because only the wealthy can afford to act in this way, while the balance of the province’s citizens suffer in thirsty silence. The trio’s action shows total contempt for the very people who provided the profits that
allowed them to buy and smuggle the beer.
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WHAT’S going on in the often heated world of women’s affairs in Rabaul? Dove Sanctuary director Elizabeth Konmil, who spearheaded the local march against violence, has been locked out of her office. She claims she doesn’t know why, but adds that although she comes from another part of PNG, she has the heart to lead the ENB women.
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WITH great respect, those remarks are likely to stir matters up even more, although they perhaps need to be made if we are one nation, one country. But ENB is one of the few provinces that has never been short of capable and outspoken women leaders. Pass the earplugs please.
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– Dee Nesenolis